North Carolina · Nonprofit
WILKES ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
WILKES ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION (North Carolina) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,478,500 to it, the largest being THE GOLDEN LEAF INC ($3,128,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $3.5M
- Net assets
- $5.9M
What Wilkes Economic Development Corporation does
Mission
Economic development of wilkes county
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Acting as an advisory council to local governmental agencies and businesses in wilkes county, nc, where recommendations of goals and objectives are given for future economic development.
$566,006 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $566,006.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $1.5M to $3.6M (+146%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 83% · 2018 99% · 2019 96% · 2020 83% · 2021 91% · 2022 99% · 2023 98% · 2024 67% · 2025 52%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
84% of WILKES ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (61% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Amy Blair
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $114k → $85k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $5k from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest Wilkes Economic Development Corporation). These are real filings, and they are not money WILKES ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION raised.
From the IRS filings of WILKES ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
WILKES ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 90% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
91% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund WILKES ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 55% · 2021 100% · 2022 50% · 2023 59% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
100% of WILKES ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $25k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
WILKES ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,127 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,127 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like WILKES ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WILKES ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds WILKES ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION?
- WILKES ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION (North Carolina) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,478,500 to it, the largest being THE GOLDEN LEAF INC ($3,128,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WILKES ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $3,478,500 in grants to WILKES ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WILKES ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION?
- THE GOLDEN LEAF INC is the largest funder on record, with $3,128,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WILKES ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 4 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing